Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such poisonings are truly modern crimes, made possible by the mass media and the size of contemporary communities. Such senseless killings were once perpetrated only on the pages of Dostoyevsky's novels. Nowadays, the news is filled with them...
ANONYMITY IS THE modern way. We spend much of our lives--in the street, on the bus, in the store--with people we don't know. There is a certain comfort in this, a kind of transient absolution from social niceties; after all, we'll never see these people again. Aptly, the sociologist David Riesman '31 has called our culture "the lonely crowd...
...OVERSIZE SCALE of modern societies has militated against the survival of old ways. Apartment buildings have replaced neighborhoods. Small towns have become icons reserved for television commercials. The communities that flourished for most of humankind's existence slowly have become extinct in our own time...
...solution to our problems is the small community. Cities could be reorganized into smaller, more manageable units. Perhaps small towns could even replace the cities. No longer must the small town be characterized by insular ignorance and intolerance. The modern small community need not be an island. The same mass media that perpetuate the anonymity of the lonely crowd could tie together a nation of small communities...
...Office for the Arts considered Kool-Aid on ice to be art, why didn't they cover the Radcliffe Yard, where the Office for the Arts is located, with the stuff. Instead, Quad resident are subjected to a gross example of modern "art." Of course, those of us up here should be used to such things. You know what I would have considered art? Donating the Kool-Aid grant to the Quad renovation fund--most students would prefer rooms comparable to those on the river over a ludicrous display of biodegradable graffitti. Christopher...